Tania Maria’s Biography

Born in a family of amateur musicians, in São Luís, a city in the Northwest of Brazil, Tania Maria began studying piano at the age of 7, and, at only 13 years old, she had already won the first prize of A local musical contest as the leader of a group his father had started, and three years later he got married and started studying law, but he left his studies to record his first album published by Warner, published in Brazil in 1971, at the age of 20. with the title Olha quem chega, which already showed her characteristic style, a combination of Brazilian rhythms with the harmonies of jazz, which the pianist would later develop.

In the mid-seventies, the artist left Brazil to settle temporarily in Paris, where, after recording several albums of moderate success, she signed a contract with the record company Concord and, in 1980 she published Piquant, an album that won the Golden Leonard Feather Award, an award bestowed personally by the famous critic, since then he has recorded more than 25 albums and toured virtually all of the world’s great jazz festivals.

In 1985 the singer received a Grammy nomination in the category “Best female vocal performance.” Tania Maria resided in New York and currently lives in Paris with her family.

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